Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry
William ShakespeareMacduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
William ShakespeareMany strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
William ShakespeareWhy, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise: only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I do not like her. (Benedick, from Much Ado About Nothing)
William ShakespeareEvery subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.
William Shakespeare